Adrian Law
White Bear (白熊) on Instagram — 3rd in the 2025 USIC Stock Division behind Martin Luk and Rajnus Capital, at +264%.
The 2025 USIC $20K-$1M Stock Division podium had Martin Luk's +969.8% world record at the top, Rajnus Capital LLC's +382% in the middle, and Adrian Law's +264% in third — a three-name podium where every audit number is in the kind of territory that would have been a leaderboard outlier in any prior year of the championship. Law runs his public footprint as WhiteBear.trading (Cantonese: 白熊交易) on Instagram and Facebook, which makes him part of the same Cantonese-trader cluster that produced Law Wai-Sum and Martin Luk in the same championship year.
The intra-year trajectory tracks a steady build rather than a single explosive month: +101% by September, +279.7% by October, closing at +264% on the December audit. The slight late-year drawdown into the final number is the typical pattern for a top-three Stock Division finish — most leaderboard names give back a portion in Q4 as the audit horizon tightens. Adrian Law has no surfaced LinkedIn / X handle under his name, but the WhiteBear.trading Instagram is the cleanest active social surface.
The Cantonese-speaking branding (白熊交易 = "White Bear Trading") and the absence of a course / membership program around the audit make him the most reachable Cantonese-tier 2025 USIC trader through direct DM rather than through a paid-program funnel.
Vitalii Kaminskyi · June 2026 · English
Looking back, what was the single turning point in your life, not in trading specifically, but in the life that led you to it?
The biggest turning point was in 2023, when I started my master's degree.
I had been interested in trading since I was a teenager, and I first started trading after Covid. I traded for a few years, struggled, and eventually gave up for a while. But master's life gave me a second chance. It gave me more flexible time, and that allowed me to pick trading up again, study the market seriously, and rebuild from my previous mistakes.
Looking back, going back to school gave me the space to become a trader again.
Who has been the most important role model in shaping who you are, and what specifically did you take from them?
I do not have one specific role model.
I learned a lot from studying different traders on Twitter/X. I watched their passion, their strategies, and especially how they managed risk. What I took from them was not one exact setup, but the mindset: keep improving, stay disciplined, and build a trading style that fits yourself.
What is a quality in yourself that the WhiteBear.trading audience would not guess?
People may think I am naturally a high-risk person because of the several -30% drawdowns I have posted.
But actually, those drawdowns were calculated in my backtest. I am cautious in real life, and I do not like unnecessary risk. What I am doing is training myself to take higher risk only when it is planned, controlled, and supported by data, because that is necessary if I want to capture outlier returns.
So I am not someone who naturally loves risk. I just practice taking calculated risk when the upside is worth it.
What is the hardest lesson you have learned outside markets that ended up changing how you trade?
Most of the lessons that changed how I trade came directly from the market.
I had blown up three times before, and that taught me I needed a real strategy and proper risk management. The market also taught me about overconfidence, revenge trading, and the danger of thinking one good trade means you are right.
Those lessons were painful, but they made me more disciplined. I learned that a strategy only matters if you can survive losing periods and still execute properly.
Which year of your trading career was the one you actually stopped losing money for good, and was the WhiteBear.trading brand born before or after that?
I would say 2025 was the year I stopped being a losing trader.
In Q4 2024, I was trading with Trade The Pool, and I started getting payouts in 2025. That gave me confidence that my strategy was working. After that, I put real money into the market.
WhiteBear.trading started after my first Trade The Pool payout. I began posting my trades on Threads because I wanted to document the process and be transparent.
The branding (白熊交易 / White Bear Trading) is distinctive against most USIC competitor identities. Was the Cantonese-first audience always the plan, or did it grow that way?
Cantonese came naturally because it is the language I express myself in most comfortably. WhiteBear.trading started from my own identity, language, and desire to be transparent.
On Twitter/X, there are verified traders who post their trades every day and stay transparent. I felt I could do something similar for the Cantonese-speaking trading community. More Chinese users were also using Threads, so it became a good place to share my trades.
The 2025 USIC Stock Division podium had three Cantonese-speaking names: Martin Luk, Law Wai-Sum, and you. Was there any contact between you during the year, or did you all arrive at the leaderboard independently?
We arrived there independently.
I do not know them in real life, and there was no contact or collaboration during the year. Everyone traded their own account and strategy.
It is great to see several Cantonese-speaking names on the USIC podium. It shows that Cantonese-speaking traders can compete at a high international level.
USIC 2025: +264% in the Stock Division, 3rd place. The intra-year peak was +279.7% by October. Walk us through what happened in the final two months that shaped the December close.
The final part of the year was difficult because the market became cold.
My strategy performs better when there is strong volatility, clean momentum, and enough quality setups. In the last months, there were fewer setups and less volatility for my style, so the market simply did not favor my approach. The account pulled back from around +306.5% in November to +264% in December.
I believe I did everything correctly according to my system. It was just a market environment that did not favor my strategy.
You completed the HK$260,000 to HK$2,000,000 challenge in 172 days and are now targeting HK$10M. How does managing a personal challenge account at that pace feel different from the USIC audit format?
For me, it was actually the same.
The USIC competition and my personal challenge happened during the same period. I joined USIC in June because I saw the growth speed of my personal challenge account and thought I might have a chance to reach the top three. From there, I started reporting my trading statements to USIC.
I was not trading two separate accounts or using a different approach for USIC. I was simply reporting the results from my personal challenge account to USIC.
So the trading format did not really change. The strategy, risk control, and execution were the same. USIC was more like an audited record of the challenge I was already doing.
You trade for Trade The Pool as well as your own account. How do you think about splitting focus and risk discipline between a prop firm structure and a personal championship account?
I treat them as two different trading environments.
A prop firm account has clear rules, so with Trade The Pool my job is to respect those rules and stay consistent. It taught me discipline and risk boundaries when I was still a beginner.
A personal account gives me more freedom. It allows me to take more risk for higher returns, but it still has to be done with strict risk management. Because it is my own capital, I cannot treat freedom as an excuse to take random risk.
The core principle is always the same: control the downside first, then think about returns.